Hi, I totally agree with you. I was just being ironic and critic about statements of the kind "men play more with computers...". These arguments are just based in our experiences. They are our working hypothesis but that does not mean they are unquestionable truth.
The poster of the comment used this kind of argument to show that women are less skilled in IT, and so I did the same to show that it is not true. My point was that IT is not just IQ, but also EQ.
I used my point "Women are more social", because in my experience, it is true. But that is just my experience (and I have also worked with teenagers).
I agree. My point was that one can say that men spend more time with computers as one can say that women spend more time socializing. And even if one uses this as a working hypothesis (which almost everyone does, and so do I), one cannot claim that women are generally worse in IT than men. They are just two different (and complementing) sides of the coin.
Unfortunately, statistics tells us that women spend more time taking care of domestic affairs than men. Certainly, this has an effect in women careers. Just because women are socially (or personally) more inclined towards domestic affairs does not mean that they are less suited for IT (or anything).
You say that men spend more time in the basement with computers in their adolescence while women don't. First of all, I do not see an argument supporting this, maybe your own experience, which has not enough statistical weight anyway.Second, suppose it was true. Then, what do women do in their adolescence? You'll perhaps agree that they have a more social life (this argument does not have statistical validity either). Well, if so, then they are probably more aware of what a certain customer might need while developing software. Also they'll be more efficient in communicate with the customer to achieve better results in the software developed. This is as important for IT as the programming itself. Therefore, the fact that men spent more time in their basements playing with computers in their adolescence does not make them more suited for IT. They are just more specialized in certain tasks, while women are specialized in others. The mixture if the two specialities is crucial in the proper running and development of an IT company. BOTH are important.
Well, certainly linux gaming is underdeveloped. But, comparing to 3 years back, it has improved reaally a lot.
Now you can play: Enemy Territory, Neverwinter Nights and Doom3, for example. World of Warcraft is planned to be ported to linux as well. And for games exclusively for Linux: Check
http://happypenguin.org for the state-of-the-art.
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Hi, I totally agree with you. I was just being ironic and critic about statements of the kind "men play more with computers...". These arguments are just based in our experiences. They are our working hypothesis but that does not mean they are unquestionable truth. The poster of the comment used this kind of argument to show that women are less skilled in IT, and so I did the same to show that it is not true. My point was that IT is not just IQ, but also EQ. I used my point "Women are more social", because in my experience, it is true. But that is just my experience (and I have also worked with teenagers).
I agree. My point was that one can say that men spend more time with computers as one can say that women spend more time socializing. And even if one uses this as a working hypothesis (which almost everyone does, and so do I), one cannot claim that women are generally worse in IT than men. They are just two different (and complementing) sides of the coin. Unfortunately, statistics tells us that women spend more time taking care of domestic affairs than men. Certainly, this has an effect in women careers. Just because women are socially (or personally) more inclined towards domestic affairs does not mean that they are less suited for IT (or anything).
You say that men spend more time in the basement with computers in their adolescence while women don't. First of all, I do not see an argument supporting this, maybe your own experience, which has not enough statistical weight anyway.Second, suppose it was true. Then, what do women do in their adolescence? You'll perhaps agree that they have a more social life (this argument does not have statistical validity either). Well, if so, then they are probably more aware of what a certain customer might need while developing software. Also they'll be more efficient in communicate with the customer to achieve better results in the software developed. This is as important for IT as the programming itself. Therefore, the fact that men spent more time in their basements playing with computers in their adolescence does not make them more suited for IT. They are just more specialized in certain tasks, while women are specialized in others. The mixture if the two specialities is crucial in the proper running and development of an IT company. BOTH are important.
Well, certainly linux gaming is underdeveloped. But, comparing to 3 years back, it has improved reaally a lot. Now you can play: Enemy Territory, Neverwinter Nights and Doom3, for example. World of Warcraft is planned to be ported to linux as well. And for games exclusively for Linux: Check http://happypenguin.org for the state-of-the-art.